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This little treatise, pretty obscure, interests me because: (1) William James, the pragmatist-philosopher with a frighteningly open mind, praised Bergson's thought and limpid style; (2) it influenced the extravagant early poetry of Wallace Stevens; (3) Einstein, in a much-discussed debate, humiliated Bergson, and I've always had affinity for the shamed and the foolish — Polonius was my Hamlet.

Train reading. The classic.

Oh yes. My innate curiosity and constructive scepticism is rearing its head again.

But my body is still tense all the time. Ugh.